Hello. My name is Sean, a.k.a the Silver Fox and this is part two of my update on a kit that I carry. This particular video will be my update on my hip kit and what modifications I’ve made to it and the kits I carry in relation to the last video.
As I said before, this hip kit is something who worked me for a while and I am always changing it, updates and modifying it, adding new things to it. Okay, first things first, the biggest change that I’ve done will be division of this new pack on the side. This is a army trauma pack. What I will do, I will then take that pockets off as well and then you can see the monster that I have done. All right.
So this army trauma pack, that’s it and I have added these—as you can see, these old-style fitting kit and this one for an old timer I had. And I do a like fitting. You saw it how quickly it was for me to take off but it was a very, very secure way to putting the packs on.
Another armored version of the similar principle but that’s what I got. On the back, I’ve also got a Velcro strap and it won’t mount in other ways but on the start of my pack, it goes on sideways. Well this pack opens like so and on top part, the long part, that is my hobo stove, the homemade stove that I’ve shown you on previous videos. Nothing is different in that, it’s exactly as it was before and in the front is a separate pocket. I have my large piece of tin foil which is a disposable barbecue foil tray which I keep for other cooking things in the fire; open fire or the windshield if I needed the hobo stove. So that’s enough because it’s in the front. Other than that the pack is the same.
See the lower packs contains my food. So it’s food in that pack and food in that bottom part. Okay, all my five—kit is already inside the stove as I’ve shown you before. That is that side. The other side, I have a small—this is my air, land and sea as well. This is a digital camera case and no modifications to this. This is as exactly as it came except I’ll tell you I have a secure buckle in front of this one because you just have Velcro on the front, so secure buckle in the front. This one contains my first aid kit and my torches headlight, some torches abd batteries. I also got my glasses attached to that one.
Pack on the other side, this pack contains my water. Now this okay this is another—pouch, this contains my water. Again, it’s on the back, same fixings, the patent 58 fixings with the Velcro strap and I’ve replaced it the metal buckle that came with this, first snap to fasten up just because it’s quick and more convenient, so it’s that pack.
Okay, so here is my hip pack and throw a punch on the bottom and we’ll take that out as well. I’ll get it down to the small as it goes. Okay, this hit pack when I bought it—when I bough it, it usually had two small fasteners on the font and just secure this lid down. So remove those and I stitched on this strap that goes over the top. This strap has right way over. This webbing goes rightly around underneath, so then I'm able to hang my firm rest and my bed row or my poncho underneath, okay.
They are on compression scraps, so I just tie them up, like so. Put me in the top. Back in top, I pull it all nice and to the whole pack thing comes compact and now I’ve got a good strong heavy duty handling the tops take the weight. The pack was not designed to take this sort of weight that I am carrying in it, so I had to reinforce. Now to move the original buckle web or hip pack strap, remove that. Put the new ones on which go rightly through and round. Again, it is also in to help me enforce the weight whether the hip strap goes on and on the sides, I’ve also stitched on extra web in. So now, I can put a fleece or again a poncho on the side out tying up.
Okay, so I got compression straps on the side. There is one of them on both sides. Okay, so I got one both sides. The strongest strap, I've explained to you, you know why I carry the shoulder strap. That is on there. Okay, around the back, these two fittings on the top of why I tape onto my harness. I’m going to wear as the rucksack or a shoulder strap and the two zips in the back, I was referring to that when it goes to my kit on my rucksack.
What I’ve done, I’ve made a new hole to the side here and what it is I was going to do is pull that hip kit through, tuck it inside this space at the back. You zip that up but it still enables this buckle which then clips onto my rucksack and that was the idea of modifying this pack in this way.
Like so. So there is my two female coupling. Now that small pack will then clip straight onto my rucksack and it sits around the front to me like so and that’s obviously my kit. That is pretty much it now. That is everything done to this pack. I can’t see if we do anything with else with it and I’ve—maybe upgrading for slightly larger pack in the future and—but all I may do is pack for the last two years now and some—I’ve never have space with this especially with the additional packs I’ve gone so. So today I’ve—
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